(n.) A beverage. See Sherry cobbler, under Sherry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Across the country motorcycle taxi drivers, cobblers, parking attendants, construction workers and nursery teachers are vying for seats in the country's various legislatures.
(2) The actor Steven Berkoff, who had met Biggs in 1987, when making a film about him that both agreed was "a load of cobblers", praised his "most terrific patter".
(3) The same voice that told me over 50 years ago that the little cobbler boy should have been in school playing and learning with me is telling me now that compassion for the world’s children can be the unifying force that patches humanity’s soul and puts us on the right course again.
(4) Now we will sweep them away," said Mohan Lal, a 42-year-old cobbler in west Delhi.
(5) To which I can only say: this is more cobblers than you'll find on the back end of a Highland ram.
(6) He left Osmondthorpe secondary modern at 14 and worked as a cobbler's assistant and then as a clerk for an undertaker before, in 1950, getting a job as a junior reporter on the Yorkshire Evening Post.
(7) But the audiences at Toronto, which kicks off on Thursday, will be clapping eyes on not one but two Adam Sandler movies: The Cobbler and Men, Women & Children.
(8) Dane Skaife, 25, manager of Timpson's cobblers in Salford, which suffered £80,000 of damage and was closed for six weeks, says: "There's no one to blame.
(9) I tell him I'd heard he was actually making a living as a cobbler.
(10) For glaringly obvious legal reasons I cannot be remotely specific about the contents, but suffice it to say that several friends are mentioned and all the juicy bits (probably cobblers, but amusing for all that) are printed in red.
(11) The Birkenstock family cobblers business was founded in 1774 in the Rhine-side town of Bad Honnef, some 40km south of Bonn in Germany, and is still family-run today.
(12) My dream is of a world where every time someone whose income is in excess of several million a year claims publicly that "nobody works harder" than them, some sort of ridicule siren goes off across every part of the globe that has the luxury of a few minutes to read such cobblers.
(13) Also, you don't have all the make-up cobblers; as a woman, that's a big and very boring part of the job.
(14) Shops hit ranged from pawnbrokers and cobblers to a travel agent.
(15) Obviously anyone with even a passing acqaintance with Massimo Moratti will know that Mourinho is talking complete cobblers - if anyone involved in tonight's match is obsessed with winning the Champions League it's Inter's president.
(16) In December, Johnson called the allegations about the competition “a load of cobblers”.
(17) ‘Wouldn’t the children in the class below us benefit from our textbooks the same as we had – not to mention the cobbler boy and other children unable to attend school?’ Photograph: Alamy My friend and I rented a vegetable cart and walked around the neighbourhood convincing everyone to put their books in the cart rather than throw them away.
(18) His father Moses was an alcoholic and his mother, Eva Mogale, was the daughter of a cobbler cum minister of the Lutheran church.
(19) The real answer to my question to the cobbler boy’s father was not that some people are simply born to work but rather that some things in this world are unjust; and none more so than robbing children of their childhoods.
(20) When Cameron told the Conservative party conference “there’s no reward without effort; no wealth without work; no success without sacrifice”, he was talking cobblers.
Workman
Definition:
(n.) A man employed in labor, whether in tillage or manufactures; a worker.
(n.) Hence, especially, a skillful artificer or laborer.
Example Sentences:
(1) Alice Workman (@workmanalice) What's your favourite type of lettuce?
(2) Workman's facing Avila, gets him in a 1-2 count and then strikes him out to end the inning.
(3) Updated at 3.59am GMT 3.52am GMT DCL (@DCL9) " @NotCoachTito :"Brandon Doin' Work, Man" @LengelDavid "Tag this thing & bag it now.Let's get this one to make sure there's a game 6 in #Boston October 27, 2013 Not Terry Francona (@NotCoachTito) Brandon Workman is coming to the plate batting for himself.
(4) Workman got exactly one out in the ninth inning before Farrell pulled him, so he effectively handed the Cardinals an out.
(5) The complexities and interferences in the doctor-patient relationship during the treatment of the compensably-injured workman create an unusually high incidence of delayed recovery, complications, and permanent disability.
(6) 3.45am BST Cardinals 4 - Red Sox 2, top of the 8th Brandon Workman, who does not come out to Rush's "Working Man" sadly, start the eighth.
(7) Of the 87 patients not receiving workman's compensation, 70 patients (80.5%) had marked improvement; four (4.6%) had slight improvement; and 13 (14.9%) had no improvement.
(8) And they took him by each arm and by each leg and laid him down on the table and the fifth one strapped him in.” Neither Workman nor Boone could remember the name of the man who resisted.
(9) "Employment growth is just not enough to cover the number of new entrants into the workforce," Workman said.
(10) Advisory board members Uwe Albrecht Managing partner, Siemens Venture Capital GmbH Peter Baines General partner, Advent Venture Partners Clennel Collingwood Investment manager, TTP Ventures Luciano Diana Head of Cleantech Energy Equity Research, Morgan Stanley Ben Goldsmith Partner, WHEB Ventures Alex Hook Investment manager, NESTA Bakhrom Ibragimov Principal, Virgin Green Fund Alok Jha Journalist, The Guardian Hamish Sandison Partner, Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP Patrick Sheehan Partner, Environmental Technologies Fund Felix von Schubert Partner, Zouk Ventures Adam Workman Investment partner, CT Investment Stephan Decher Founding partner, Clean Capital Jürgen Habichler Managing director, Mountain Cleantech Andrew Humphrey Clean energy analyst, Morgan Stanley Stuart McKnight Managing director, Ascendant Maurizio PetitBon General partner, Kreos Andreas von Richter GE Energy Financial Services Capital · Richard White is Senior Analyst at Library House
(11) During his employment with the corrections department, Workman said he never directly pushed the button during a lethal injection.
(12) Most notably, he left reliever Brandon Workman in the game to hit for himself, he struck out on three pitches in his first at-bat at any professional level, so he could come back to pitch the ninth of what was by then a 4-4 tie.
(13) Randy Workman saw intimate details of the death penalty that are kept from the public eye in the United States.
(14) That brings out Sox manager John Farrell to get his man, Workman is done for the night and starter Felix Doubront will make a relief appearance and face Prince Fielder.
(15) Workman thought Alverson had matured during more than a decade in prison: his time was productive, and he spoke to children to try to sway them from a life of crime, Workman said.
(16) Commonwealth Bank senior economist Michael Workman put the lower unemployment rate down to the fall in the participation rate.
(17) Speedy Ortiz play Shipping Forecast, Liverpool, 19 May; The Workman's Club, Dublin, 20 May; Exchange, Bristol, 21 May; Electrowerkz, EC1, 22 May
(18) 3.55am BST Tigers 2 - Red Sox 1, top of the 7th Workman gets Infante to fly out for the first out of the 7th, Farrell gets Breslow and Tazawa working.
(19) The authors present the clinical course of a 48 year old workman who developed a progressively extending pain, after having wounded his left second finger with a metallic rod at work.
(20) Commonwealth Bank of Australia senior economist Michael Workman said soft investment outside the mining sector had probably been a key factor in the RBA’s decision.